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What is a web crawler, really?

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In this episode of Search Off the Record, Gary Illyes and Lizzi Sassman take a deep dive into crawling the web: what is a web crawler, and how does it really work? Listen along as the Search team is joined by an expert web developer in the SEO community, Dave Smart, for an in-depth and technical discussion of all things crawling, and maybe dispel some myths along the way. 

 

Resources:

Episode transcript → https://goo.gle/sotr070-transcript 

Managing your crawl budget → https://goo.gle/3IzRZxl

Dave Smart on LinkedIn → https://goo.gle/3wPSuRA

Tame the Bots → https://goo.gle/4cfCQ1P

Search Central Help Forum → https://goo.gle/sc-forum

Indexing API docs → https://goo.gle/3v8yVU0

 

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

 

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Speaker: Gary Illyes, Lizzi Sassman

Products Mentioned: Search Off The Record

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Filed Under: Internet Marketing Podcast

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